B Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with B. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Broad access to opportunity is the key to a truly equitable America. No matter who you are or where you grew up, Black Faces in White Places provides a blueprint to seizing opportunities at hand - and expanding opportunity for your entire community.”
“Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.”
Source: The dark side of Guy de Maupassant
“Broad earth, now you entomb Megatimos and Aristophon
who were the two tall columns of this island Naxos.”
“Broad-leaved parkeelya
Meaning: By your love, I live and die
Calandrinia balonensis | Northern Territory
Parkilypa (Pit.) is a succulent growing in sandy soils of arid regions, with fleshy leaves and bright purple flowers, which appear mainly in winter and spring. In times of drought the leaves can be a water source; the whole plant can be baked and eaten.”
Source: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
“Broad-market indexes like S&P 500 must rise over the long term. The upward path is the only logical direction. Prices can be suppressed for a short period, but eventually, the index will continue its course.”
“Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.”
“Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.”
Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn
“Broad wings are good on a leader because they can power through the wind, clearing a path for those behind them, but small wings are just as effective, by diverting the wind so it catches more gently under the wings of those behind you. - The Malwatch”
“Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.”
Source: The Innocents Abroad
“Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.”
“Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.”
“Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.”
Source: John Brown's Body
“Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.”
“Broadcast and satellite television and radio, the global positioning system (GPS), cellphones, and WiFi have all come at the expense of the next generation.”
“Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.”
“Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.”
“Broadcast your message, not your emotions...!!”
“Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.”
“Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.”
“Broadcasting for advertisers is still the best game in town, and they know it. Look, I admire a lot of the shows on cable. I think 'Mad Men' is wonderful. I think 'Breaking Bad' is wonderful. But let's remember they're about one-tenth the audience of NCIS.”
“Broadcasting is definitely in my cards for the future, and I'm determined to work hard at it - to perfect it and create my style and niche.”
“Broadcasting is easy; you just talk until you think of something to say.”
“Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.”
“Broadchurch' is very different, but it's equally as good as 'The Killing' - if not better.”
“Broaden your horizons. They're the only ones you'll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible.”
Source: Anyone But You
“Broaden your vision, and maintain stability while advancing forward. That is my philosophy.”
“Broaden yourself. You don't have to focus when you're 20. I think the broader you are, the better it is. Later you can focus on your real interests and ideas. The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.”
“Broadening personal knowledge of the world is a worthwhile adventure. Education flows from insightful firsthand experience and from listening carefully to the astute observations of other people. It is essential to pay heed to valuable information passed down by writers and by the viva voce of respected contemporaries. I must take what is portable from the dearth of personal encounters and make out what I can from the richness of studious words shared by kindhearted souls whom I have met and what few author’s lustrous works that I was privileged to read.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Broadly Americans agree that women need access to health care to prevent medical disasters and to prevent pregnancy.”
“Broadly socialists believe all human beings are of equal worth and that society should be organised to reflect that. Fairness, equality, justice and the common good are the foundations of socialism. The wealth created by humans should be used to benefit everyone.”
“Broadly speaking, the KPIs of the organization needs to be the KPIs of the IT function.”
Source: Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance
“Broadly speaking, to acheive DevOps outcomes, we need to reduce the effects of functional orientation ("optimizing for cost") and enable market orientation ("optimizing for speed") so we can have many small teams working safely and independently, quickly delivering value to the customer”
Source: The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
“Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.”
Source: Churchill By Himself
“Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.”
“Broadly speaking, in the past few years, we've more than doubled the editorial staff [in Mother Jones], as part of ramping up daily operations that have resulted in huge gains in audience, a slew of awards, new multimedia endeavors, and of course scoops like the 47 percent.”
“Broadly speaking, it is my conclusion that a pretty good guide to most issues of natural law is to look at those areas where you find a consensus in the Judeo-Christian tradition. I think that is roughly, not unerringly, the outline of what I would call natural law.There must be some moral values underlying any civilization; that's my guide.”
“Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force. But it controls the great flow of demand into the economy, what since Keynesian times has been the flow of aggregate demand. That was the basic idea of Keynes so far as one can put it in a couple of sentences.”
“Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.”
“Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so.”
“Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good. Hence, the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in public life, laissez-faire economic policies, private ownership of guns and relaxed conditions for using them, less regulation and taxation, and a valorization of the traditional family.”
“Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.”
Source: The Impact of Science On Society
“Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.”
Source: Life of Christ
“Broadmoor creeps into your blood, the walls touch the sky and the grounds suck you in, they’ve even got their own burial ground. We called it the ‘madman’s hole’, it smelt of fear; a stillness and even the birds seemed to have a stone face like their eyes were made of marble. So many monsters, men of hell, I don’t know how a sane man can keep sane in there.”
Source: Insanity: My Mad Life
“Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.”
Source: Collected Works
“Broadway has always been a dream of mine.”
“Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.”
“Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.”
“Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.”
“Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.”